The CNIL's Digital Innovation Laboratory (LINC) devotes its latest Innovation and Foresight booklet to the political and social challenges of data in the city.
Highlighting the consequences of the " datafication " of cities on public policies, and in particular on the relationships and power relations between private platforms and urban decision-makers, this study puts the "Smart City" approaches into perspective through the prism of the platform economy, and the power relations between public actors, private actors (in mobility, flows, civic techs) and citizens.
The implementation of the digital city is approached from three angles:
- When the economic models of platforms transform the city: the arrival of major digital players in urban services (Sidewalk CityLab, Waze, Uber or Facebook) raises questions about the quid pro quo asked of individuals, and about those asked of public players.
- The fluid city: who benefits from the flows? The promise of the fluid city raises the question of the freedom and rights of individuals, who sometimes tend to be reduced to the status of the city's encumbrances, a sum of elements to be optimized and problems to be resolved by technology.
- Towards a "private browsing" mode in public space? The imperatives of security and the generalization of the devices of capture put at evil the anonymity, however constitutive of the city.
Another LINC publication, " Journey to the Center of the City of Tomorrow", presents three scenarios for the year 2026 conceived in the framework of design fiction workshops, set up in partnership with Five by Five (an innovation agency) and Usbek & Rica (a magazine exploring the future):
- Guanxi - The professional adventure game where you are the hero
- Citysense - An individualized city
- Marianne Reloaded - The civic bot
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